Meet the New Campus Radicals

February 26, 2026

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, legal analyst for EWTN News and director of the Conscience Project, authored a piece for National Catholic Register this week about a “new kind of radical on college campuses today” who “look nothing like what we have come to expect.” Picciotti-Bayer, who is also a member of RFI’s Board of Directors, writes:

They are not barricading buildings or shouting down speakers. They are not demanding the overthrow of institutions or vilifying those who disagree with them. Instead, they are challenging institutional decisions and the dominant culture of their peers while living according to their deepest Christian beliefs.

This is radicalism in its truest sense: going to the root of things, insisting on first principles, refusing to accept what is fashionable, and putting oneself at risk. Their radicalism lies not in tearing things down or in self-preservation, but in the insistence that universities and their students form a community that should be directed to the good, true and beautiful.

Read the full article: “Meet the New Campus Radicals.”